Show COlORADO RIVER AT lOWEST KNOWN The Colorado river at Moab IS now at the est 10 stage ever known for thIS time of the year The flow is less than tenth one what It was at this time in 1933 weather bureau records show The rIver can be waded at most points and Is but little larger than a fair fair- sIzed creek OffIcials of the weather bureau at Denver announced last Tuesday that the stream flow through the Grand canyon in Arizona on July 3 was 3 cubic feet per second On July 3 1933 the flow was 29 cubic feet and ande andeen e een en that fIgure was below normal The river supplIes the urn urn- penal valley In California and other important ClOp areas along the lower sm bisin with irrigatIon water m in those districts are unusually short on account of the drought The upper Colorado river fIver is now beIng practically depleted by irrIa- irrIa tion diversIOns The Grand valley ditch Highline at Grand Junction and the High High- line canal above Pall PaliSade ade take out outmost outmost most of the water of the stream while the Gunnison rivel its main is mostly diverted into the Un Unborn Unborn- com canal |